On 3/13/2009 9:19 AM, Bill Crawford wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2009 11:25:07 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ... >> "Welcome to Fedora Unity's Re-Spin download site. In the past we have >> chosen BitTorrent as our method for sharing bits. For our latest >> release we have gone with using Jigdo to reduce the bandwidth and time >> requirements of each Spin. Thanks and enjoy!" >> there is a fundamental logical disconnect here: jigdo is being >> promoted heavily as a way to get fedora re-spins, when jigdo clearly >> doesn't work for a rapidly-changing distro like fedora. can we >> finally agree on that? > The provider of the "jigdo template" ought to be pointing to a repository of the > updates you need, to be used when they are not available from other sources, > but providing instructions suggesting to check local sources and / or mirrors > of the distro first so you don't overwhelm an under-resourced site. They did. When the list was made which was over a month ago. Since this is a volunteer group that was trying to be helpful. Doing the work for nothing and giving it away. I guess that you get what you pay for. ;-) You do know that if you made the effort that you could create your own jidgo files and make a current re-spin? Current as of today and out of date tomorrow. There is a jigdo utility for just that. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
